NCR Editorial Staff

In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV has spoken about war, peace, technology and human dignity with the clarity this moment demands. Catholics should now ask what it means to say that just war theory is "outdated."

The event was another step by religious and political extremists intent on destroying the wall that separates church and state as well as the constitutional guarantees of freedom of – and from — religion.

The Catholic Church is not a static entity fully and perfectly formed, but our hope is that it doesn't take another 500 years to acknowledge the realities of the LGBTQ+ community.

On the holiest day of Christianity, the U.S. president threatened to annihilate a civilization. That is corporate evil.

No straight path exists to sort the way through Catholic-Jewish tensions when Israel's resort to violence raises objections in many quarters. Yet we can show the world examples of love that overcome fear and division.

We have gone to war on the bluster and wish of a president for whom reality and facts are transactions amenable to his needs of a given moment.

We should not be surprised if Catholics are asked to pay a price for what their leaders are compelled to do in service of the Gospel. Sometimes the Gospel requires that we bear a burden.

We are encouraged by the bishops who have spoken out against the Trump administration's assault on human dignity. But to those bishops who have remained silent, we ask one simple question: What are you waiting for?
 

It is a new level of opposition for American cardinals to formally question the fundamental morality of an administration's engagement with the world.

Authoritarianism thrives on resignation. This is why the most urgent task before us is not simply political opposition, but moral recovery. We must relearn what it means to be a people capable of nonviolent resistance.

With his invasion of Venezuela and capture of its leader, President Trump dares us to take stock, dares us to say that he has gone too far, and dares us to engage in acts of resistance equal to his destructive behavior.

When war becomes the baseline — not only in policy, but in our imagination — something in us has already broken.

The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an abstract idea, but as the core of its public witness.

The verdict against women deacons is the body of Christ trying to move forward into history with one foot tethered to a Bernini column. No matter how generous the tether, the resultant journey is in endless circles.

The U.S. bishops' statement on immigration may be benign, but it is — at least — a beginning. Our fear is that it will be treated as an end in and of itself. 

U.S. bishops have spent untold millions to influence national politics on abortion, but their response to real terror in our streets and government-driven deprivation of basic needs has been embarrassingly inadequate.

Millions of Americans face an imminent health care crisis. Yet hope is faith in action. And the time for Catholics to act is now.

Prophetic in the truest sense, Dilexi Te is an uncompromising assessment of how wealth and faith in contemporary economic ideologies and markets have misshapen Christianity.

McElroy's message to reject indifference toward indiscriminate, violent deportation arrives with a desperately needed clarity amid the unfortunate clutter of voices on the issue, even within the church.

A full Israeli occupation of Gaza would prolong siege, displacement and famine for Palestinians. For Israelis, it would mean a costly, endless military entanglement, heightened insecurity and deepening political and moral isolation.